[mythtv-users] REMINDER: Back Up Your Database.

[Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt]

On 01/01/14 06:20 PM, Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 23:54 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 12/30/2013 11:32 PM, Andrew C. (AFPup) Stadt wrote:
>>> I do have to admit that at one point, mythconverg_backup stopped
>>> working for me.  I had transitioned from packages to git, and somehow
>>> an outdated backup script got left in my path.  Of course I figured
>>> this out when I needed the backup.  Luckily the fs that hosted the
>>> database had been backed up... but..
>> Yes, an old mythconverg_backup.pl won't work with the new format of
>> config.xml (but a new mythconverg_backup.pl will work with either an old
>> or a new format config.xml).  Or, put another way, a current
>> mythconverg_backup.pl script will work with any version of MythTV ever
>> released.
>>
>> So, as Andrew rightly indicates, anyone out there who's been using
>> MythTV for years (since before 0.25) should check to make sure their
>> backups are still working properly.
>>
>> Note, too, that you can always explicitly specify all the database
>> connection details in ~/.mythtv/backuprc (as described in
>> mythconverg_backup.pl --help --help ).  The upside is that your backup
>> script will continue to work, regardless of changes to config.xml
>> (and/or our no longer using mysql.txt or whatever).  The downside is
>> that you have one more place to update when you change DB connection
>> information (i.e. changing the network configuration or whatever).
>>
>> Mike
>    Deciding to force a backup just in case, I found out that I no longer
> have the mythconverg_backup.pl for 0.27.  Any ideas as to where this can
> be dl'ed from?
>
Where did you install from? Source or package?  If package which 
distro?  If installing from source, its in 
./mythtv/programs/scripts/database/mythconverg_backup.pl and gets 
installed to /usr[/local]/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl

Some distros might package the scripts separately,  not sure what the 
convention is.

Andrew.